Bluishdoor76

what data panel are you referring to, is it the top right one with their armor, weapons and other info, plus the image of the ship? Because if you are then, you do know you can click on the ship and the window will remain after you move your cursor away from said ship.... again, is it this info panel you are referring to? do not mind the real awful scenario I just sent this 2 BBs lol

Richelieu-class and Dunkerque-class are other examples of fast battleships that had nothing to do with airplanes, France had 1 carrier during this time period, its main concerns were the growing number of large and powerful fast battleships being built by the Germans with the Scharnhorst-class and Bismarck-class, and Italians with the Littorio-class, which is other examples of fast battleships not influenced by aircraft but by the need of faster more powerful vessels. Aircraft did not began to dictate naval doctrine until well into WW2 with the carrier air raids in the Mediterranean sea and the Pacific theater, and the sinking of Bismarck. Prior to WW2 and even early parts of WW2, aircraft were still not really seen as big game changers, wasnt until the appearance of the Blitzkrieg that air power was really shown to be a game changer.

Provence facing down the 2 Italian battlecruisers that sunk her sister as one of them suffers the consequences... 14bby :3 And the ultimate victory, detonating the final battlecruiser the same way as her sister was, the ultimate karma...

Its alright, battleship Provence will continue the fight and avenger her sister!

NOOOOOOOO NAPOLEON!!!!!!! those damn Italians manage to detonate her front turret

Makes for a nice looking screenshot at least ^^

@Cptbarney while you fester in your squalor replicating Charlemagne, I have gone beyond and created a new monstrosity. I give you Empereur Napoléon!!

New update is pretty good, having fun messing around with the new turrets and hulls. One thing that I would like to know if it could be addressed is the ability to put a barbette on this location on the French super battleship hull 1, something along the lines of here... Feel like it would make for a much better triple turret front design instead of putting the third turret directly on the hull.

I personally preferred the name of the other similar class to the Caio Duilio, the Conte Di Cavour, love that name lol

Nick do be doing me dirty since War Thunder's update will most likely go live next week as well lol

daring today are we

I do hope they add weather effects, would love some North sea and Arctic seabattles. Specially when playing as the Russians.

Omg the wait is finally over, I am glad that there are multiple issues being addressed besides just adding the new hulls, turrets and new formations. Here hoping next alpha will focus on addressing the issues with the designer, specifically the remaining generic hulls that are still far too restrictive compared to the newer hulls. As well as the other multiple issues such as armor and bulkheads. But for now this will fill my French ships loving heart for a while!

could we perhaps please, get... just another new screenshot pretty please

"So this is how progress dies... With numerous memes...." - Padme Amidala

Something I do wish they would add, and no I'm not saying its important and should be added now, are more German superstructures for cruisers. I really wanna build a Königsberg styled ship or a Deutschland styled cruiser. also, El Salvador 1980-1992

China 1916-1949

1860s USA

This thread about to turn into 1700s France if they don't release soon....

Stares angrily in European* :3

tbf, only 2 of those 4 sectors were of true importance to the Russians, that being the Baltic and the Black sea. The Arctic was frozen throught most of the year so had little value and thus only kept a small batch of destroyers. Vladivostok was of a bit more importance to the Russians but with Japan next door growing as a naval power and China being stagnant with its navy they saw little need to keep a large fleet as it would be too far away to keep well maintained. Of course this did came back to bite them when the Russo-Japanese war happened.

I'll be happy as long as I can steal treaty ports off the Chinese as it is customary in Vicy 2

Nothing wrong with the community wanting to build their favorite historical ships and making some original wacky designs, thats what the builder is for. Most of us here already call out people who want this game to be as arcade as WoWS. Nothing wrong with the devs adding new hulls either, the problem is that they have focused too much on late interwar and WW2 era ships, leaving Pre dreadnought, dreadnought and WW1 era very desolate. The designer is the biggest issue in the game imo as its limitations really restrict creativity and boxes you into 1 or 2 designs with minor changes here and there. Theres plenty of content, but the builder limits the usability of said content, which is why I wish they would dedicate an update to just sort out the games main selling point. Otherwise theres really no point in having a builder in the first place.

This is something I wish they'd stop doing, don't hello kittying announce something if it's nowhere near ready to be released. You keep ending with this situation where all you do is make your own player base lose faith in your abilities. I get that this is a small team and all but we're now pushing 3 months since this update was announced....

Depends on which battle type you select, for RB you can earn 2k-4k rp per game also depending on your performance. Of course if you are at the bottom half of the team you wont earn that much xp, 1k at most. On defeats in RB if you manage to make it to top 3 you can still earn about 2.5k rp. Of course you have to get the other vehicles on the tree, even the ones that dont lead directly to the ship you want. So yeah the grind is pretty hefty, but after playing both for a fairly considerable amount, I honestly think WT's grinds arent that much worse compared to WoWS's and WoT's grinds. Also yeah compared to the Jets or MBT grinds, the Battleships are no where near as bad, I say give it a try and get to them as soon as possible if you do find enjoyment at all, since the longer you wait, the more ships will be added in between the start of the grind and the battleships.